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Glossary and List of Bengali Plant Names (4)

[16] PÁLAḾ (PÁLAḾ [...] PAT́OL”. PÁN. Betel, Piper betle Linn. PARAT́HÁ. [...] to LUCI, but sometimes stuffed.

[18] SAJNE. Moringa oleifera Lam. [...] nut is sometimes called “betel nut” because it is often taken with betel (Piper betle Linn.), but it is not botanically related to betel.

Women of Bengal – Excerpt B (2)

[6] In the various rituals of worship, banana, betel leaves and betel-nuts were widely [...] thus they were fond of chewing betel leaves like the Dravids, and they [...] time of their marriage ceremony.

Women of Bengal – Excerpt A (2)

[13] [Return, O friend, and taste betel nut and betel leaves. Come back in the month [...] daughter to her father-in-law.]

Vraja Krśńa and Vishuddha Advaetaváda – 3 (Discourse 12) (1)

[24] The head of a family is seated, [...] them, and add fifteen or twenty betel leaves. That will reduce the burnt [...] his is the active witness-ship.

Vraja Krśńa and Sáḿkhya Philosophy (Discourse 7) (1)

[28] What is Krśńa like? [...] and joy to the heart. Some chew betel or use other things to colour [...] sweetly enchanting smile.”

Views of Other Faiths (1)

[34] [Consciousness arises from action [...] matter, just as red colour comes from betel leaves, lime and catechu when they are chewed together.]

Vidyá Tantra and Avidyá Tantra (1)

[21] Now let us analyse the six actions [...] in a chánci pán [a betel preparation], is known as vashiikarańa. [...] survive by killing another.

Various Occupations (1)

[98] The production and distribution [...] non-essential food items (such as sweets, betel, etc.) may remain in the hands of business people.

Vargiiya Ba and Antahstha Va to Osadhipati (Discourse 14) (5)

[4] “Gauhati” is spelled [...] guváhát́i. The word guvá [betel] has come from the accepted Sanskrit [...] guvá was used; supári [betel nut] was not taken. The word supári [...] d́áli is also used.

[6] [Come with me to the market and buy some betel there and eat it.]

[8] [When you return, my friend, enjoy some betel leaf and betel nut. Come in your boat in the [...] daughter to father’s house. ]

Trade and Barter in Ancient Bengal – Excerpt A (1)

[7] The poet Mukunda Rám Cakravartii [...] as cloves, medicinal fruit and betel. Bengalees exported very fine [...] used to bring back gold coins.

The Vaeshya Age (1)

[34] If a certain commodity is easily [...] “Please come in, sir, have some betel.” But when the same commodity [...] of others is of no consequence.

The History of Bengal – 2 (2)

[10] In the various rituals of worship, banana, betel leaves and betel-nuts were widely [...] thus they were fond of chewing betel leaves like the Dravids, and they [...] time of their marriage ceremony.

The History of Bengal – 1 (2)

[24] [Return, O friend, and taste betel nut and betel leaves. Come back in the month [...] daughter to her father-in-law.]

The Family Man and the Renunciant (1)

[1] Once there was a great king who [...] reclining upon his throne, chewing betel nut. That yogi was quite relieved [...] King Janaka as his second guru.

The Desires of Khyát́andás (2)

[26] “What can I say?” replied [...] them boiled again with a whole betel leaf. If they’re too spicy [...] quickly what needs to be done.”

[66] The ticket collector came to the [...] you should have given me a rolled betel leaf. Instead you are demanding [...] catch a word of the conversation.

Tantra in Bengal – Excerpt B (2)

[2] In the various rituals of worship, banana, betel leaves and betel-nuts were widely [...] thus they were fond of chewing betel leaves like the Dravids, and they [...] time of their marriage ceremony.

Tantra and Indo-Aryan Civilization (2)

[79] Káliká Devii, the [...] accepted by Buddhist Tantra. Clad in betel leaves (parńa means “betel leaves” or “turmeric [...] 10 )

Talks on Bengal – Excerpt D (2)

[13] The train line should go up to [...] such commodities as coconut, fish, betel nut, betel leaf and good quality cashew nuts, [...] beauty accessible to the people.

Taking the Opposite Stance in Battle (2)

[8] Jine kadariiyaḿ dánena: [...] someone does not offer you even a betel leaf, offer him a full meal, and he will be put to shame.

[41] What is this abhimána? It [...] Smoking cigarettes and chewing betel are not so much condemned in society [...] as condemnable as drinking wine.

Some Important Crops (11)

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Some Developmental Programmes for Bengal (2)

[11] The train line should go up to [...] such commodities as coconut, fish, betel nut, betel leaf and good quality cashew nuts, [...] beauty accessible to the people.

Seminal Weakness (1)

[8] 1. One inch of tulasii [basil [...] chewing very well along with a betel [ Piper betle Linn. ] leaf daily for about two weeks, will give excellent results.

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[15] SOME [...] The chewing of betel is not in use in Iran now. [...] was connected.) –Eds.

Ráŕh – 27. (1)

[6] Such is the simplicity of the people [...] Mongol populations, used to chew betel leaf and exchange it with others, [...] guyá has been derived –

Rádhá's Devotion – Excerpt A (1)

[3] What is Krśńa like? [...] and joy to the heart. Some chew betel to colour the lips and mouth; [...] except His sweetly enchanting smile.

Proper Names – 2 (Discourse 17) (2)

[82] When many are taken together to [...] of coconuts, a kándi of betel, etc. There are many chaŕá [...] Háilákándi (Kachar District), etc.

[86] It would be very good if a railway [...] local fisher-folk, banana farmers, betel farmers and flower farmers to [...] would not entail much expenditure.

Proper Names – 1 (Discourse 16) (2)

[37] It was mentioned earlier that Calcutta [...] crop; for example, the area where betel was grown was named Guvábágán (the Sanskrit word for “betel” is guváka and from this [...] Hartukiibágán, and so on.

Phatu's Clubs (4)

[10] Perhaps you know that there are [...] excellent feast ends with three rolled betel leaves and one rupee twenty-five paisa as a sacerdotal fee.

[11] The menu of an ordinary feast is [...] puffed rice and, to end, two rolled betel leaves and 25% of the sacerdotal fee of the excellent feast.

[12] A horrible feast’s menu leaves [...] the end of the feast, one rolled betel leaf and a sacerdotal fee of five paisa.

[13] The jackals were served the excellent [...] shoulders, to give them three rolled betel leaves and a sacerdotal fee of [...] obliging me in this way.”

Párthasárathi Krśńa and Dvaetaváda (Discourse 18) (1)

[15] We should remember one more thing [...] external covering. If one chews betel, then one’s lips become reddish [...] or pratyaváya disappears.

Párthasárathi Krśńa and Bhaktitattva (Discourse 23) (1)

[24] Iishitva : You see, my Párthasárathi [...] is, His lips are not coloured by betel preparations, but there is a sweet [...] He was established in iishitva.

Northeastern India (3)

[15] In the regions where there is heavy [...] for growing pineapple, banana and betel nut. In English supari means “areca nut” but in Indian English it is “betel nut”. Betel is a Tamil word which means music. [...] no pineapple or banana is grown.

Nocturnal Emission (1)

[28] 1. Eating an inch of basil [ Ocimum sanctum Linn. ] root with betel [ Piper betle Linn. ] every [...] carefully, will cure the disease.

More on Suffixes and Prefixes (Discourse 6) (3)

[19] There are some words that do not [...] example, rajju [string], gubák [betel nut], etc. No matter how hard [...] but they are still in use today.

[21] The Bengali word supárii [...] Guwábágán which means “betel garden”. There is another [...] leaf, (2) turmeric leaf, and (3) betel leaf. The word parńashálá [...] absorbed into Sanskrit in this way.

Language and Dialect – 2 (Discourse 8 (4)

[28] Just as every language has its [...] gentleman was standing in front of a betel shop in Lucknow and said dot́ho pánká khili dijiye [give me a couple of khilis (betel leaf with lime, catechu and betel-nut [...] khiliyán dijánye. When the betel seller gave him his betel he said – do khiliyán [...] and millions will suffer for it.

Lakeside and Riverside Plantations (2)

[21] 2) Boundary plants – includes [...] palmyra around B category lakes, betel nut palms around C category lakes, [...] trees around E category lakes.

[22] Creepers should also be grown along [...] palmyra with jasmine creepers; betel nut with lavender; and date with [...] should be planted by each lake.

Ka to Kandara (Discourse 16) (4)

[42] Turmeric leaf is called parńa [...] parńa is páń [betel leaf] (Its Sanskrit name is nágavallarii). Támbula does not refer to betel leaf but rather to any table spice. In this respect, betel leaf belongs to the category of [...] then became Parńashavarii.

[64] “Sit carefully,” I [...] moreover, it’s covered with betel nut stains.”

Kakubh to Kavaśńa (Discourse 17) (1)

[164] That was a short aside about the [...] forests of saline climates – betel, areca, mangrove, and hentál [...] construction of boats and local ships.

In the Land of Hat́t́amálá Part 2 (4)

[17] “I bow before thee, god Ganesh [...] and rice I’ll give you betel leaves and nuts And the sacred [...] Save my life and my wealth.”

[85] Many well-known physicians visited [...] tablets to be taken either with betel stem juice, burnt goat-stool ash [...] her condition stayed the same.

[111] The king gave Duyo a brass pitcher and a round container full of betel leaves. Chewing on a mouthful of betel, Duyo placed the pitcher on her hip and set off in the direction of the forest.

In the Land of Hat́t́amálá Part 1 (5)

[79] And that’s why, today, they [...] of them are sitting on top of a betel nut 21 tree gossiping and chewing betel.

[80] Madhumita asked: “Won’t that betel nut tree break under the weight of those two grown-up people sitting on it?”

[81] Smiling, Ekanore quickly answered: [...] weightless. That’s why the betel nut tree won’t be damaged [...] tall fish-eating ghost?”

[361] 21) Betel nut. This, when chewed, has a stimulating effect as does tea or coffee.

Intoxicants (1)

[9] If someone indulges in chewing [...] jardá used in India with betel leaves are also types of small tobacco leaves.

Integrated Farming (2)

[85] Crops requiring shade include such plants as ginger, turmeric, betel leaf, sweet potato, sweet juice [...] lavender and oleander fragrances.

[91] Creepers to be grown in protected areas include the gach pán variety of betel leaf and long pepper (pepul) [Piper [...] grown only in protected areas.

Impotency and Infertility (2)

[27] 3. 1 inch of basil [ Ocimum sanctum Linn. ] root chewed and eaten with betel [ Piper betel Linn. ]; or

Ik to Indura (Discourse 6) (1)

[53] “When people are not given [...] work, Shubhendra Narayana ran a betel shop in Nawada and Manotośa Vasu used to drive an ekká.

Genius and Technician (2)

[6] Some civilizations after coming [...] with them a small box for pan and betel nuts and leaves, but they do not [...] bridegroom carries a nutcracker for betel nuts, and the bride wears the [...] of ancient civilization it was.

Farsi Words in Bengali (Discourse 10) (4)

[34] The word supárii or supurii [...] modern, but rather extremely recent. Betel is called kashaelii in Urdu and [...] Guvávágán. Betel is still called guvá in [...] in popular verse and doggerel.

[36] [Agadom, Bagadom and Ghoradom are dressing. Let us go to the market and buy betel-nut and betel leaves.]

[49] Omar is an Arabic word but it is [...] reddish-yellow leaf which is eaten with betel; it is called jardápáttii.

Education (1)

[29] Students go to school and sit for [...] much lime has fallen from their betel leaf! [...] 3 )

Eczema (1)

[18] 6. Grind the leaves of kelekoṋŕá [...] should be covered with a bandage of betel [ Piper betle Linn. ] leaves drenched in coconut oil or cow’s ghee.

Economic Self-Sufficiency for Bengal (4)

[13] Coconuts require saline water, [...] is ideal for the cultivation of betel nut. In the same soil black pepper can also be profitably grown. The cultivation of betel leaf requires saline soil. The soil of the Tamluk subdivision of Midnapore is ideal for betel leaf, and it can supply the entire Indian market. All of South Bengal can grow betel leaf.

Economic Dynamics (1)

[35] In many places in India abundant [...] arrangements could be made for betel leaf. If this were done, then [...] able to live a well-to-do life.

Dyspepsia (Indigestion) (2)

[26] 2. Take shredded dry coconut or the flesh of mature coconut along with a prepared betel [ Piper betle Linn. ] leaf or with aniseed.

[28] 4. Take 1/16 tola (not more than that) of ash of a cowrie, wrapped in a betel leaf, after the evening meal every [...] 1 )

Dowry and Marriage – Excerpt E (1)

[2] According to an old folk wedding [...] cover their face with a big Bengal betel leaf with the stem pointing upward [...] painful situation for the bride.

Disembodied Souls and Microvita – Excerpt A (1)

[11] There are some diseases – [...] descending order, then cloves and betel leaves are boiled together and [...] should be ejected from the mouth.

Discourses on Prout (1)

[43] Cooperative ownership cannot stand [...] not essential for life, such as betel shops, tea stalls, restaurants, etc.

Contai Basin Planning (5)

[17] Cash crops such as coconut, squat gourd, melons of all varieties, cashew nut, jackfruit, chiku, betel nut, betel leaf and banana can be grown in abundance.

[24] Besides these crops, abundant betel or areca nut, betel leaf and bananas can be grown in the Contai Basin. All these are profitable cash crops.

[27] A small distance from Digha an [...] agricultural produce, coconut, betel leaf, areca nut, melon, squat [...] undergo an economic revolution.

Acidity (1)

[21] 1. Eat some shredded dry coconut along with a prepared betel [ Piper betle Linn. ] leaf, or some flesh of mature coconut along with aniseed.